Destroyer Announce New LP Poison Season, Shares “Dream Lover”

Dan Bejar’s Destroyer has announced a new album called Poison Season, to be released in August. It will be his first album since 2011’s stunning Kaputt.

According to the press release, “Poison Season opens with Vancouver native Dan Bejar swathed in Hunky Dory strings. He's a dashboard Bowie surveying four wracked characters — Jesus, Jacob, Judy, Jack — simultaneously Biblical and musical theatre.” And that the record “often appears to take sonic cues from a distinctly British (usually Scottish, to be precise) strain of sophisti-pop: you might hear traces of Aztec Camera, Prefab Sprout, Orange Juice, or The Blow Monkeys. These songs merge a casual literary brilliance within intense melodic verve, nimble arrangements, and a certain blue-eyed-soul sadness.”

The album is anchored by the quasi-title track “Times Square, Poison Season”, a song Bejar recorded with a live quintet to open and close the record. He then recorded it in a Springsteen/Bowie-esque “street-rock” style to serve as the album’s centerpiece (“Times Square”).

The album is out on August 28. You can pre-order the LP, CD, or digital album here. Check out the tracklist below and listen to the album’s first single, “Dream Lover”, below:

Poison Season Tracklist:01 Times Square, Poison Season02 Dream Lover03 Forces From Above04 Hell05 The River06 Girl in a Sling07 Times Square08 Archer on the Beach09 Midnight Meet the Rain10 Solace’s Bride11 Bangkok12 Sun in the Sky13 Times Square, Poison Season II